IC 47: Facebook Wants to Read Your Brain

Facebook is pursuing new technology that can read human thoughts with moderate accuracy. Michael’s got the doomsday implications of this while Randolf is excited by the possibilities. We’ve got plenty of gaming news including androids, alien squids, and Ninja’s move to Mixer. We discuss in YGST what we watched – Mean Girls – and then … Continue reading IC 47: Facebook Wants to Read Your Brain

Facebook is pursuing new technology that can read human thoughts with moderate accuracy. Michael’s got the doomsday implications of this while Randolf is excited by the possibilities. We’ve got plenty of gaming news including androids, alien squids, and Ninja’s move to Mixer. We discuss in YGST what we watched – Mean Girls – and then talk about the Best Internet we found this week.

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Show Notes
Facebook is building tech to read your mind” (Vox)
Facebook’s original blog post
Self-Driving Cars Are Still Years Away. That’s Probably A Good Thing (HuffPost)

Gaming
Detroit: Become Human (PlayStation; trailer )
Zero Punctuation on colons in video games (YouTube)
Beyond: Two Souls (Wikipedia)
Dragon’s Lair (Wikipedia)
Prey (2017) (Steam)
BioShock series (Wikipedia)
Ninja announces he’s moving to Mixer
Ninja claims Twitch is reacting unprofessionally to his move

You’ve Gotta See This (YGST)
This time: Mean Girls (IMDb)
For next time: Good Will Hunting (IMDb)

Good Internet, Best Internet (GIBI)
Randolf’s Good 1: r/Serendipity
Michael ’s Good 1: A YouTuber into biohacking has put the RFID key to her Tesla in her forearm.
Randolf’s Good 2: Someone posts a blurry photo of a carpet to r/pics, gets huge response.
Michael’s Good 2: Videos of people on Twitter impersonating Moira Rose’s fruit wine commercial (1, 2, 3, Annie Murphy’s attempt, original Moira commercial)

Music
“spring synths” by oddsamples is licensed under CC BY 3.0
“Bacterial Love” by RoleMusic is licensed under CC BY 3.0
“Divider” by Chris Zibriskie is licensed under CC BY 4.0